edify
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[edit] English
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- ædify (archaic)
[edit] Etymology
Latin aedificare 'build'.
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edify (third-person singular simple present edifies, present participle edifying, simple past and past participle edified)
- (now rare) To build, construct.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- That Castle was most goodly edifyde, / And plaste for pleasure nigh that forrest syde [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- (transitive) To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.
- 1813, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI, page 455
- That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
- 1813, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Vol. VI, page 455
[edit] Translations
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually
